In our 26th podcast, we speak with Bob Caton & Michael Bann about their new comic, The Victorian Horrors of Old Mauch Chunk. We discuss where the story follows and strays from actual history, the real world town where the story takes place, the horror, steampunk and adventure elements of the story, viral marketing, promotions with businesses related to the comic, working with Diamond Comic Distributors as a new publisher, and Australia’s Big Electric Cat.

The first issue of The Victorian Horrors of Old Mauch Chunk will be released in September 2008.

In our 25th podcast, we discuss Stan Winston; Vincent Price Comics; Halloween Comics (based on the films by John Carpenter); the upcoming Robotech film; film adaptations of Clive Barker’s books, including the upcoming Midnight Meat Train; the sequel to the film The Descent; and a reading by Neil Gaiman from his soon to be released novel The Graveyard Book, followed by a Q&A session recorded by Damian during a recent bookstore appearance in Australia.

Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book will be released in America on September 30, 2008.

Due to scheduling issues, we’ve decided to release solo episodes called Kryptik Musings to bridge the gap until we release our next podcast.

In our third Kryptik Musings podcast, Damian speaks with Ben Templesmith, artist on 30 Days of Night and Fell, and wrtier/artist of Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse and the upcoming Welcome To Hoxford, published by IDW.

In our 24th podcast, we have the second half of our horror comics discussion with Bob Bretall (continued from Kryptographik 23). We spend most of the episode discussing Locke & Key, written by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Joe Hill and published by IDW. We also discuss Max Allen Collins’ Johnny Dynamite, published by AiT/PlanetLar, and Suckulina: Vampire Temp (“The sexiest Torture Princess in Hell’s history”), published by Moonstone Books.

Kryptographik is a trans-continental podcast featuring Brian (in the U.S.) and Damian (in Australia), providing news, reviews, and commentary regarding science-fiction, dark fantasy and horror, in and out of comics.

In our 23rd podcast, we’re joined by Bob Bob Bretall, co-host of the Comic Book Page Podcast (conveniently located at http://www.comicbookpage.com/Podcast/ ), who joins us for the first half of our two-part episode discussing horror comics including Hellblazer: Joyride, Gravel, Spawn and Gunplay #0.

We also discus our opinions regarding the role #0 & #½ issues, marketing comics on- and offline, William Gravel’s history at Avatar Comics, the Constantine film, the history of Hellblazer, Swamp thing and various Vertigo series, and what to expect from Vertigo in the future.

Coming soon (in episode 24), we continue our conversation with Bob with an in-depth dicussion of Joe Hill’s Locke & Key from IDW, the re-relase of Johnny Dynamite by Max Allen Collins and much more.

Kryptographik is a trans-continental podcast featuring Brian (in the U.S.) and Damian (in Australia), providing news, reviews, and commentary regarding science-fiction, dark fantasy and horror, in and out of comics.

Due to scheduling and other issues, we’ve decided to release short episodes, called Kryptik Musings, to tide our listeners over between episodes of Kryptographik.

In our first Kryptik Musings podcast, Damian reviews The Darkness: Butcher and a preview of Titanium Rain.